Responding to a report of an assault, Ocean City police found Justin Daniel Cancelliere, 37, of North Whitehall, Pa., unconscious and unresponsive about 3 a.m. outside the Plim Plaza Hotel in the 100 block of N. Atlantic Ave.

First responders from the Ocean City Police and Fire departments treated Cancelliere at the scene and took to him to Atlantic General Hospital, where he later died.

Ocean City police are investigating and did not provide details on the assault that led to Cancelliere death. No one has been charged in the death as of yet. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland in Baltimore.

A 31-year-old man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Baltimore after he pleaded guilty to possessing 5.9 grams of marijuana won an appeal Wednesday invalidating the plea — raising the possibility that he will be released.